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www.goajesuits.com Vol. 28, No. 11, November 2019 Father General announces an Ignatian Year: A Call to Conversion As a province, we celebrated God's gift of two new priests—Malcolm Barreto and Shawn D'Souza—on 19 October. Now there is another celebration for the Society: Father General announced an Ignatian Year in his letter addressed to the entire Society of Jesus on the anniversary of the Bull, RegiminiMilitantis Ecclesiae.“To see all things new in Christ” is the motto of our celebration during the Ignatian year which will begin on 20 May 2021 (the date of Ignatius' injury at the Battle of Pamplona) and will end 14 months later on 31 July 2022. Conversion is at the heart of this Ignatian year. Father Sosa throws out a challenge: “It is my desire that at the heart of this Ignatian year we would hear the Lord calling us, and we would allow him to work our conversion inspired by the personal experience of Ignatius.” When Ignatius' knee was shattered by a cannon ball, he had the opportunity to reflect on his life during his convalescence. And what a difference it made for Ignatius and for the Church! Father General makes this connection with the Universal Apostolic Preferences calling us to conversion at three levels: personal, community, and institutional. During our ongoing Province Apostolic Planning, we ask for this same grace of conversion, “which is necessary for our greater spiritual and apostolic freedom and adaptability. Let us take this opportunity to let God transform our life-mission, according to his will” (Fr General, 2019/23). As Goa Province, we will take special note of our call to walk with the excluded, a specific dimension of poverty highlighted by Father General in this letter. The Ignatian Year has other events lined up: 400th anniversary of the canonization of Ignatius and Francis Xavier, and Provincial Congregations followed by the 71st Congregation of Procurators in Loyola, Spain. These events will offer us an opportunity to know, to love, and to follow the Lord in all things. “May we be inspired to have the openness of heart that we need to receive the Holy Spirit who wants to gift us the audacity of the impossible” (Fr General, 2019/23). Fr. Roland Coelho Sosa SJ has officially announced the celebration of ANNOUNCEMENT the Ignatian year to commemorate 500 years since the conversion of St Ignatius in 2021 and 400 Ignatian Year: A Call to Conversion years since the canonization of St Ignatius and St Francis Xavier in 2022. Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr Arturo GOA PROVINCE JIVIT their collaborators. CONGRATULATIONS Over the next two days we shared our province th On 19 October 2019, our two deacons: Malcolm apostolic plans for the pastoral ministry. We were Barreto and Shawn D'Souza, were ordained fortunate to be exposed to the pastoral and priests by Archbishop Felipe Neri, in the developmental activities of the Darjeeling Province. magnificent Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa. The In these hilly areas, we saw how the people manage ambience of the Basilica set the tone for the their day to day affairs and how the parish priests meaningful ceremony. 45 priests concelebrated and face the many challenges that confront them. What a large number of religious, relatives, friends and touched us deeply was witnessing how they faced benefactors witnessed the ceremony. these challenges with a smile on their faces and with trust of the Lord in their hearts. May God bless you, Shawn and Malcolm and your Fr Joseph Fernandes work abundantly. “You did not choose me, I choose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures.” (John 15:16) VINAYALAYA, MUMBAI GOA PROVINCE ONLINE PRESENCE Irivo and Danzil are doing quite well at Vinayalaya and are kept busy attending various courses that are being conducted enabling them to introspect as Elvin Cardozo, the Goa Province Coordinator for they journey deeper into their personal lives. Jesuit Communication, in collaboration with Merwin D'Souza, our PDD, and their team are Fr. Wendell D'Cruz, and Fr. Vijay Colaco (BOM), making us realize that we live in a brave new world. th conducted a course in 'Art Appreciation' from 26 to They wish to use modern means of communication th 29 September. During this course besides having and technology to reach out to today's generation fun at trying their hand at painting, they also visited and to meet the needs of people according to the the past and explored how paintings came to be signs of the times. Ms. Yashoda Harijan, will assist born. They had a peep into the lives of Michelangelo them in this new adventure. and Van Gogh, and learnt of the struggles they went through. Fr. Wendell shared with them how colours Jesuit Communication (Goa Province):- speak a lot about themselves and tell them who they Details- Mobile No- 7559168419( Whatsapp), really are. The resource persons later showcased Email Id- , Website- [email protected] their paintings. They enjoyed this course with an goajesuits.com, Facebook- Goa Jesuit Province insight that there is an artist that lies deep with each (Account/Page), Instagram- Goa Jesuit Province one. JEPASA MEET – SEPT 2019 Fr. Dudley Mendonca (BOM) offered a course on Psycho-Spiritual-Sexual inner processing. Dudley took them on a journey of healing their inner selves This year the JEPASA province coordinators met in by moving to the past with the NCD (Naming, Siliguri at PrabhuJisu Residence for their annual th nd Claiming, Draining- process). He enlightened them meeting from 18 to 22 September. In all 20 as to how emotions and feelings of the past can be province coordinators were present and Fr. blocks in their lives if not dealt with. Joseph Fernandes was the representative of Goa Province. The meeting began with the Eucharist 15th October is a day that will stand out as they will be with Fr John Lobo, Provincial of Darjeeling introduced to the Juniorate E-magazine, 'THE Province as the main celebrant. VOICE,' by Fr. Learoy, the Dean. Later, Fr John, spoke on how he is implementing Irivo is recovering well from his knee surgery and is the UAPs through the pastoral ministry in his taking utmost care of his leg as he dreams of being province. He said that every Parish must have a back on the football field. vision and mission, and the parish priests must Irivo and Danzil ensure that they share this vision and mission with GOA PROVINCE JIVIT BITS AND PIECES FROM XTC An annual occasion that we look forward to is the arrival of the Scouts and guides from Spring Valley This is the time of the year when the novices get High School, (Chubby Cheeks), Porvorim, for their exposed to different courses and so we keep annual SCOUTS AND GUIDES camp. The novices welcoming different resource persons from were full of enthusiasm, planning and organizing different provinces of the Western Zone. various activities. Anil gave them an inspiring message on the importance of preserving the Fr. Ronald, the Superior of St. Paul's Belgaum, environment in keeping with the theme of the gave us a course on the Epistles of St. Paul, thereby camp: “Care for our Common Home.” helping us to understand the context of the letters. Ronnie employed different methods in his teaching: The 2nd year novices have moved out for their at times, lectures, movies, group presentation, etc. mission experiment in different directions in three Fr. Joe D'Souza, the Socius of Pune Province batches. Meanwhile the 1st year novices are being conducted a course on Vipasana. In spite of his busy initiated and getting prepared for their spiritual schedule, he made time for the novices so they journey – the Long Retreat, scheduled to begin on 1st would be able to understand and discover their November. Kindly keep them in your prayers. inner selves and get in touch with their inner being. 2nd year XTC Novices The course on Enneagram was conducted in the last week of September by Fr. Dinesh (GUJ). Through the course we were able to discover our personality ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE, MUMBAI I am very happy and well settled in the college community and in my work as teacher of Sociology. This is my second year and I have now picked up the ropes. Initially teaching a class of 125 teenage students was difficult and I had trouble with maintaining discipline. All my earlier teaching experiences were with smaller classes of 20-30 students and much older in age. Now I have learnt to be patient and also have learnt many of their numbers. This was something new to us. He helped names, which helps maintain discipline. us to work on our inner child and past baggage that we carry by employing various therapies. By the end I teach six courses: four in Sociology and two special of the course our faces were filled with lots of joy and courses: 'Voice to Values' and 'Human Rights'; and bright smiles as we began to understand ourselves deal with around 500 students totally in my six better. The visitation by Fr. Roland, the Provincial classes. Though many of the students hail from of Goa was really a grace filled moment for our Mumbai we do have a sizable population of community. The Provincial was given a warm outstation students. Besides my teaching workload melodious welcome by the novices through a song of 20 lectures a week; a lot of time goes in assessing specially composed to welcome him. As part of the the 500-odd papers.